PQ Responses - September 30th 2025

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PQ 51109-25 - Conor Sheehan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons with a special interest in limb reconstruction based at University Hospital Limerick in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51110-25 - Conor Sheehan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances, rapid response vehicles and motorcycles based at each ambulance station within Limerick which are available to attend emergency calls on a 24-7 basis in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51154-25 - Ken O'Flynn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries carried out in Cork hospitals in 2024; the average waiting time for surgery; and the number of patients currently awaiting procedures in 2025.

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PQ 51239-25 - Ken O Flynn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of service users currently awaiting assessment by the National Gender Service (NGS); the number of service users who have been assessed since the establishment of the NGS and the age of the youngest service user assessed.

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PQ 51240-25 - Ken O'Flynn

To ask the Minister for Health the number of service users who have applied for funding to undergo gender affirming surgery abroad; the total amount the HSE has spent to date on gender affirming surgery carried out abroad; and the age of the youngest service user who was successfully awarded funding for such surgery abroad.

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PQ 51256-25 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2502 of 8 September 2025 and the failure of the HSE to provide a full response to the question, if the HSE will confirm the date on which management at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital were first informed of concerns in relation to the performance of a person (a locum consultant that ultimately prompted the lookback review currently underway into matters relating to the miscategorising of pre-cancerous cells by the consultant in questions); if the HSE will also confirm the date it was decided that an independent lookback review would be commissioned; the date in which the review officially commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51257-25 - Ged Nash

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2500 of 8 September 2025, if, prior to the Assurance Quality Framework process that identified concerns regarding the miscategorising of pre-cancerous cells by a persons (by a locum consultant) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda whose work is subject to the current lookback review, any complaints or concerns were raised with management at Our Lady if Lourdes Hospital in relation to the conduct or performance of the doctor concerned by staff members or others; the date on which any such complaints or concerns were raised; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51263-25 - Donna McGettigan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances and number of paramedic cars stationed in each of the LEAs in County Clare, from 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; her plans to increase the number of both; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51390-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health to detail the budget allocated to each hospital in the Saolta Hospital Group in each of the past five years, in tabular form.

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PQ 51391-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of activity-based funding allocations to each hospital in the Saolta Hospital Group for each of the past five years, including the metrics used to determine funding levels.

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PQ 51393-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health to provide the average cost per patient treated in each hospital in the Saolta Hospital Group over the past five years, by inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department activity.

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PQ 51394-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health to provide the number of frontline clinical staff nurses, doctors, allied health professionals employed in each hospital in the Saolta Hospital Group for each of the past five years, including the annual budget allocation.

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PQ 51464-25 - Pádraig MacLochlainn

To ask the Minister for Health when capital approval will be granted to transition a medical facility (Radharc na Sleibhte, Carndonagh, County Donegal) in County Donegal from a residential model to a recovery focused crisis intervention/set down facility, supported with 24-hour staff cover, as requested by the HSE's Donegal mental health management team.

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PQ 51500-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health when the senior speech and language (SLT) post covering the Loughrea area, which became vacant due to maternity leave in July 2025, will be filled; the interim measures being implemented to maintain SLT services in the Loughrea area while the post remains vacant; the plans the HSE have to address the wider shortage of senior SLTs to prevent future disruptions in the future.; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51526-25 - Peadar Tóbín

To ask the Minister for Health the number of outbreaks of listeria here in the past ten years; and the reason for a spike in listeria outbreaks in the last year.

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PQ 51562-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health the number of frontline healthcare professionals employed in each hospital within the Saolta University Health Care Group, by professional category including but not limited to consultants, registrars, doctors (SHOs/interns), nurses (staff nurses, advanced nurse practitioners, public health nurses), pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, dietitians, social workers, psychologists and other health and social care professionals, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51566-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the number of knife violence presentations to each hospital for each of the years from 2019 to date in 2025.

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PQ 51589-25 - Marie Sherlock

To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that will be put in place for those who received the drug alcarizax through discretionary arrangements but cannot receive this due to a negative reimbursement decision, and who require completing this course of medication; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51655-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 778 of 8 July 2025, the reason the Health Service Executive only began publishing purchase order data for payments over €100,000 on its website from quarter four of 2021 onwards; the reason equivalent reports for the period prior to quarter four 2021 are not available on the HSE’s website; and if he will confirm whether the pre-2021 data exists; where it is held; and if it will now be made publicly available.

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PQ 51656-25 - Albert Dolan

To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will publish its procurement related purchase order payment reports (reports (currently published for payments over €100,000 at: https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/finance/nationalfinance/procurement/hse-purchase-order-payments-100k.html) in machine-readable formats such as CSV or Excel on a quarterly basis, in line with open data standards; if not, the legal, technical, or operational constraints that prevent compliance with the requirement under S.I. No. 376/2021, which transposed Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on open data and the reuse of public sector information into Irish law; and the steps the HSE or his Department has taken or plans to take to align reporting with open data principles to improve accessibility, transparency, and re-use of this information by the public.

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PQ 51743-25 - Mark Wall

To ask the Minister for Health the status of the project to provide a new hospital at St Vincent's Athy, Country Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51828-25 - Cathal Crowe

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the number of children at early intervention stage who started in a primary school ASD class in the Mid-West in September 2025; if this number can be classified by each of the Mid-West Children's Disability Network Teams (CDNT) or area; the number of the children in each CDNT or area who require speech and language support; the number of the children in each CDNT or area are pre-verbal/non-speaking; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51835-25 - Aidan Farrelly

To ask the Minister for Health the specialist teams and services in place to support children requiring prosthetics alongside complex abdominal and stoma care; and if the HSE has sufficient expertise and resources in place to deal with this care.

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PQ 51853-25 - Paul Murphy

To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the damage to public health caused by weeks of gorse fires at Ticknick (https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/protect-cherrywood-families-from-ticknick-park-fire-smoke?just_launched=true); if she will liaise with the appropriate authorities to take action to prevent a recurrence so as to protect families, children and older people from further heart, lung and neurological damage; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51896-25 - Liam Quaide

To ask the Minister for Health the plans for additional post-acute inpatient neurorehabilitation beds in the southwest, in line with the Programme for Government commitment to develop more specialist inpatient neurorehabilitation beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51916-25 - Naoise Ó Muirí

To ask the Minister for Health the income thresholds which now apply for the medical card and for the GP only card; the current level of population eligible for each scheme; and the way the level of take-up has changed over the past twelve months due to the relaxed eligibility conditions.

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PQ 51923-25 - Ryan O'Meara

To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists on the North Tipperary CDNT team; if this number can be increased to combat the current waitlist; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51924-25 - Ryan O'Meara

To ask the Minister for Health the services and supports which are available for children who need to access early intervention in North Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51934-25 - Conor Sheehan

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for PrEP appointments; the waiting time through the sexual health programme, by clinic, for 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51936-25 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a site (St Brigids in Ballinaloe); the HSE plans for the lands retained; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51937-25 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Roscommon and Galway on waiting lists for a new home care package; and additional hours under current home care package, in tabular form.

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PQ 51938-25 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Roscommon and Galway on waiting lists for primary care, by service (e.g. occupational therapy, speech and language), and length of waiting times, in tabular form.

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PQ 51939-25 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on a CAMHS appointment in counties Roscommon and Galway, in tabular form.

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PQ 51941-25 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of vacancies in CAMHS in counties Roscommon and Galway.

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PQ 51942-25 - Claire Kerrane

To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of vacancies in CDNTs in counties Roscommon and Galway.

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PQ 51949-25 - Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh

To ask the Minister for Health the proposed start date for the new 92 bed community nursing unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Athy, County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51971-25 - Peter Cleere

To ask the Minister for Health the current average phone answering times for Caredoc services in Carlow and Kilkenny; the number of calls currently waiting at peak times; the steps being taken to address delays; and the future plans to ensure timely access to out of hours care.

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PQ 51995-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the current centres that provide adult disability overnight respite services in County Monaghan; the number of places provided in each; the plans to increase capacity; the plans to establish new centres that provide adult disability overnight respite services in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51996-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the current centres that provide adult disability overnight respite services in County Cavan, the number of places provided in each; the plans to increase; the plans to establish new centres that provide adult disability overnight respite services in County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 51997-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if she will establish an emergency respite centre for persons with disabilities in County Monaghan to ensure that when emergency respite demands present regular respite users are not discommoded; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 52058-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 23 September 2025, the number of persons waiting to access children's disability network team services in Cavan and Monaghan for a period of up to three months, three to six months, six to 12 months and greater than one year.

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PQ 52085-25 - Paul Lawless

To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the hospital readmission rates for each acute hospital within the Saolta University Health Care Group over the past five years, by readmissions occurring within 7 days, 30 days, and 6 months of discharge; and whether these figures indicate any systemic issues with discharge planning or post-discharge care.

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PQ 52099-25 - Matt Carthy

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1169 of 10 June 2025, the status of the review of the payment charged to disability day service users for closed routes bus/taxi services; when this review will be completed, and if she will ensure that this charge is abolished as per commitment given by the previous Minister of State for Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 52124-25 - Emer Currie

To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider establishing a National Ophthalmology Audit, similar to those in orthopaedics, ICU, and dementia care, given that cataract surgery is the most common elective procedure in Ireland (yet there is currently no national audit of outcomes or complications in this area); and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 52130-25 - Emer Currie

To ask the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries carried out in Ireland in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 52131-25 - Emer Currie

To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant ophthalmologists currently practicing in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ 52140-25 - Michael Collins

To ask the Minister for Health if the National Women and Infants Health Programme pilot system to collect more information about abortion services in Irish maternity hospitals will record the severity of post-abortion complications; if it will capture data on previous abortions; when it will be initiated; whether the data will be published in the Government's annual reports or otherwise made available publicly; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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PQ Responses - September 30th 2025